Puff adders, one of Africa's most widespread snakes, could be agricultural heroes in disguise. New research from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, has revealed that ...

Until last month, I had never seen a puff adder. After two days in South Africa, I had seen nine. Although this highly venomous viper is shy if unprovoked, the species is credited with the majority of ...

The puff adder is one of the deadliest snakes in Africa, and also an expert at camouflage. Can you spot the puff adder in the accompanying image, or in the footage before the narrator zooms in?

There are a lot of animals that blend in visually with their environment; there are relatively few that can mask their smell. One exception is the puff adder. Recent research shows that this venomous ...

The puff adder, Bitis Arietans, one of Africa's most abundant and venomous snake species has long been known to be a master of camouflage, but research has shown that it is the first land animal to be ...

Xavier Glaudas was watching a video of one of the world's deadliest snakes when something made him pause and rewind. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” he says. On the film, a puff adder (Bitis ...

The Puff Adder (Bitis arietans) is one of Africa's deadliest snake species, not only due to its deadly venom, but also because of its stealthy behaviour in the way that it hunts by ambushing prey. It ...

Puff adders are so difficult to detect by scent that trained snake-finding dogs can walk over a live adder without noticing. “The puff adders wouldn’t react, and the dogs would be sniffing on the ...